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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages 908-915Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.10.093
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Dissolved organic matter; Metal bioavailability; Photooxidation; Flow field-flow fractionation; UV; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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- Swiss National Science Foundation project [200021-134627]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200021_134627] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Humic substances (HS) play key role in toxic metal binding and protecting aquatic microorganisms from metal-induced stress. Any environmental changes that could alter HS concentration and reactivity can be expected to modify metal complexation and thus affect metal speciation and bioavailability to microalgae. The present study explores the influence of increased solar irradiance on the chemical structures and molecular weight of Elliott soil humic acid (EHA) and the associated consequences for Cd(II), Cu(II) and Pb(II) complexation and intracellular metal content in microalga. The results demonstrate that high radiance doses induce an oxidation of EHA with a formation of low molecular weight acids, an increase of -OH and -COOH group abundance, and a drop in EHA hydrodynamic size and molecular weight. The photo-induced structural changes are accompanied with a release of metal from M-EHA complexes and narrowing their size distribution, which in turn results in an increase of the intracellular Cd, Cu and Pb contents in microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in agreement with the measured free metal ions concentrations. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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